South East PRINCE2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2) skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PRINCE2 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE2 (PRINCE 2)
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Andover Argyll and Bute Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Runcorn Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	31
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	619	713
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.825 %	0.721 %
As % of the category below	8.551 %	7.974 %
Daily rates quoted	250	244
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£367
Average daily rate	£391	£385
% change on same period last year	+1.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£412	£404
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£381
% change on same period last year	+3.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.49	£38.08
Average hourly rate	£27.08	£43.28
% change on same period last year	-37.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.66	£48.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.82	£34.58
% change on same period last year	-10.88 %
Processes & Methodologies South East
Matching contract IT job ads	7239	8941
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	9.649 %	9.046 %
Daily rates quoted	2063	2489
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£356
Average daily rate	£375	£377
% change on same period last year	-0.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	672	835
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.83	£30.65
Average hourly rate	£29.35	£32.51
% change on same period last year	-9.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.88	£34.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
PRINCE2 England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

PRINCE2
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PRINCE2 across the South East region.

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PRINCE2 across the South East region.

PRINCE2
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PRINCE2 across the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

PRINCE2
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE2 within the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Berkshire	+2	138	£411	+10.48 %
Surrey	+9	131	£381	+4.14 %
Hampshire	+37	99	£360	-14.38 %
Buckinghamshire	0	55	£409	-7.92 %
West Sussex	+1	54	£423	+2.45 %
Middlesex	+15	42	£353	-13.83 %
Oxfordshire	0	26	£302	-7.67 %
Kent	+11	20	£348	-
East Sussex	-3	20	£375	+10.19 %
Thames Valley	+21	9	£343	-19.41 %
M4 Corridor	-3	8	£504	+32.67 %
Sussex	-10	4	-	-
Home Counties	+5	1	£400	-

PRINCE2 England

PRINCE2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing PRINCE2 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PRINCE2.

1 438 (35.07 %) Project Management 2 299 (23.94 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 281 (22.50 %) Finance 4 197 (15.77 %) MS Project 5 158 (12.65 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 6 143 (11.45 %) ITIL 7 140 (11.21 %) Government 8 132 (10.57 %) Security Cleared 9 119 (9.528 %) Telecoms 10 115 (9.207 %) Stakeholder Management 11 112 (8.967 %) Migration 12 107 (8.567 %) Microsoft 13 98 (7.846 %) PRINCE 14 95 (7.606 %) MS Excel 15 86 (6.886 %) Insurance

15 86 (6.886 %) Business Analysis 16 83 (6.645 %) Change Management 16 83 (6.645 %) SC Cleared 17 82 (6.565 %) PMI Certification 18 81 (6.485 %) PMP 19 78 (6.245 %) MS Office 19 78 (6.245 %) Oracle 20 68 (5.444 %) PMI 21 63 (5.044 %) MS PowerPoint 22 59 (4.724 %) Risk Management 23 54 (4.323 %) Banking 24 53 (4.243 %) Project Planning 24 53 (4.243 %) CRM 25 52 (4.163 %) Matrix Management 26 50 (4.003 %) Programme Management

PRINCE2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing PRINCE2 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PRINCE2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 33 (2.642 %) .NET 2 12 (0.961 %) XML 2 12 (0.961 %) Middleware 3 9 (0.721 %) J2EE 4 8 (0.641 %) HTML 5 7 (0.560 %) WebSphere 6 5 (0.400 %) SOAP 7 4 (0.320 %) WebServices 7 4 (0.320 %) ASP 7 4 (0.320 %) ASP.NET 7 4 (0.320 %) .NET Framework 8 3 (0.240 %) XHTML 9 2 (0.160 %) RSS 9 2 (0.160 %) EJB 9 2 (0.160 %) JDBC 9 2 (0.160 %) JSP 9 2 (0.160 %) Servlets 9 2 (0.160 %) SAP Basis 10 1 (0.080 %) JSF 10 1 (0.080 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 13 (1.041 %) MS Exchange 2 10 (0.801 %) SharePoint 3 9 (0.721 %) CMS 4 7 (0.560 %) WebLogic 4 7 (0.560 %) Apache 5 6 (0.480 %) JBoss 6 5 (0.400 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 5 (0.400 %) Office Project Server 7 4 (0.320 %) Documentum 8 3 (0.240 %) SAS 8 3 (0.240 %) CICS 8 3 (0.240 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 3 (0.240 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 2 (0.160 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 2 (0.160 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 2 (0.160 %) BizTalk Server 9 2 (0.160 %) GroupWise 9 2 (0.160 %) ColdFusion 9 2 (0.160 %) Lotus Notes 9 2 (0.160 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 197 (15.77 %) MS Project 2 95 (7.606 %) MS Excel 3 78 (6.245 %) MS Office 4 63 (5.044 %) MS PowerPoint 5 43 (3.443 %) MS Visio 6 14 (1.121 %) CA Clarity 7 8 (0.641 %) Spreadsheet 8 2 (0.160 %) AutoCAD 9 1 (0.080 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 14 (1.121 %) Oracle ERP 2 5 (0.400 %) AWD 3 3 (0.240 %) Oracle Applications 4 2 (0.160 %) SAP CRM 4 2 (0.160 %) SAP FI/CO 4 2 (0.160 %) SAP CO 4 2 (0.160 %) Oracle Financials 4 2 (0.160 %) SAP R/3 4 2 (0.160 %) SAP FI 5 1 (0.080 %) Oracle EBS 5 1 (0.080 %) Oracle CRM 5 1 (0.080 %) Oracle 11i 5 1 (0.080 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 5 1 (0.080 %) Microsoft CRM 5 1 (0.080 %) SAP APO 5 1 (0.080 %) SAP Retail 5 1 (0.080 %) SAP Oil and Gas 5 1 (0.080 %) SAP ERP 5 1 (0.080 %) Oracle Payroll
Communications & Networking 1 32 (2.562 %) LAN 2 30 (2.402 %) WAN 3 24 (1.922 %) Internet 3 24 (1.922 %) SAN 4 11 (0.881 %) Firewall 5 10 (0.801 %) Extranet 6 9 (0.721 %) Intranet 6 9 (0.721 %) MPLS 7 7 (0.560 %) ATM 7 7 (0.560 %) Broadband 7 7 (0.560 %) Cisco IPT 8 6 (0.480 %) TCP/IP 8 6 (0.480 %) SDH 9 5 (0.400 %) VoIP 9 5 (0.400 %) Wireless 10 4 (0.320 %) VPN 10 4 (0.320 %) DNS 10 4 (0.320 %) DHCP 11 3 (0.240 %) ADSL 11 3 (0.240 %) TETRA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (1.761 %) SQL Server 2 13 (1.041 %) Datawarehouse 2 13 (1.041 %) BusinessObjects 3 9 (0.721 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 7 (0.560 %) SQL Server 7 5 6 (0.480 %) DB2 5 6 (0.480 %) Oracle Reports 5 6 (0.480 %) Oracle 10g 6 5 (0.400 %) SQL Server 2005 6 5 (0.400 %) Oracle 9i 7 4 (0.320 %) Data Cleansing 8 3 (0.240 %) BusinessObjects XI 8 3 (0.240 %) RDBMS 8 3 (0.240 %) SQL Server 2000 8 3 (0.240 %) GIS 9 2 (0.160 %) PowerCenter 9 2 (0.160 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 2 (0.160 %) MS Access 10 1 (0.080 %) Ingres 10 1 (0.080 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 2 (0.160 %) Flash 1 2 (0.160 %) TestDirector 1 2 (0.160 %) Synon 1 2 (0.160 %) Oracle APEX 2 1 (0.080 %) eCATT 2 1 (0.080 %) PowerBuilder 2 1 (0.080 %) InstallShield 2 1 (0.080 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (0.080 %) ClearCase 2 1 (0.080 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.080 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 281 (22.50 %) Finance 2 140 (11.21 %) Government 3 119 (9.528 %) Telecoms 4 86 (6.886 %) Insurance 5 54 (4.323 %) Banking 6 44 (3.523 %) Pensions 7 40 (3.203 %) Health 8 39 (3.122 %) Retail 9 29 (2.322 %) Local Government 10 22 (1.761 %) Billing 11 15 (1.201 %) Financial Institution 12 12 (0.961 %) Legal 13 11 (0.881 %) Retail Banking 14 10 (0.801 %) Law 15 9 (0.721 %) Publishing 15 9 (0.721 %) Pharmaceutical 16 7 (0.560 %) Police 16 7 (0.560 %) Marketing 17 6 (0.480 %) FMCG 17 6 (0.480 %) Criminal Justice
Job Titles 1 738 (59.09 %) Project Manager 2 154 (12.33 %) Analyst 3 89 (7.126 %) Business Analyst 4 74 (5.925 %) Coordinator 5 69 (5.524 %) Programme Manager 6 60 (4.804 %) Project Coordinator 7 59 (4.724 %) Infrastructure Manager 8 58 (4.644 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 9 39 (3.122 %) Technical Manager 10 37 (2.962 %) Technical Project Manager 10 37 (2.962 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 11 29 (2.322 %) Senior Manager 12 26 (2.082 %) Implementation Manager 13 25 (2.002 %) Senior Project Manager 14 24 (1.922 %) IT Manager 14 24 (1.922 %) Project Analyst 14 24 (1.922 %) Project Officer 15 23 (1.841 %) Deployment Manager 15 23 (1.841 %) Deployment Project Manager 16 21 (1.681 %) IT Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 68 (5.444 %) PMI 2 34 (2.722 %) NHS 3 33 (2.642 %) Management Information System 4 13 (1.041 %) Client/Server 4 13 (1.041 %) Credit Risk 5 11 (0.881 %) Mainframe 6 6 (0.480 %) Web 2.0 7 5 (0.400 %) AS400 7 5 (0.400 %) Economics 8 4 (0.320 %) DTV 9 3 (0.240 %) Thin Client 9 3 (0.240 %) EPoS 9 3 (0.240 %) IPTV 9 3 (0.240 %) PDA 9 3 (0.240 %) CCTV 9 3 (0.240 %) Computer Science 9 3 (0.240 %) Fat Client 10 2 (0.160 %) French Language 10 2 (0.160 %) Spanish Language 10 2 (0.160 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 48 (3.843 %) Windows 2 28 (2.242 %) UNIX 3 17 (1.361 %) Windows NT 4 14 (1.121 %) Linux 5 12 (0.961 %) AIX 6 8 (0.641 %) Solaris 6 8 (0.641 %) Windows 2000 7 5 (0.400 %) Windows Server 2003 8 4 (0.320 %) HPUX 8 4 (0.320 %) Windows XP 9 3 (0.240 %) VMS 9 3 (0.240 %) Tru64 10 2 (0.160 %) NetWare 11 1 (0.080 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 438 (35.07 %) Project Management 2 143 (11.45 %) ITIL 3 132 (10.57 %) Security Cleared 4 115 (9.207 %) Stakeholder Management 5 112 (8.967 %) Migration 6 98 (7.846 %) PRINCE 7 86 (6.886 %) Business Analysis 8 83 (6.645 %) Change Management 8 83 (6.645 %) SC Cleared 9 59 (4.724 %) Risk Management 10 53 (4.243 %) CRM 10 53 (4.243 %) Project Planning 11 52 (4.163 %) Matrix Management 12 50 (4.003 %) Programme Management 13 45 (3.603 %) ERP 14 37 (2.962 %) E-Commerce 15 30 (2.402 %) RUP 16 29 (2.322 %) E-Procurement 16 29 (2.322 %) Supplier Management 17 27 (2.162 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 29 (2.322 %) Java 2 22 (1.761 %) SQL 3 14 (1.121 %) C 4 11 (0.881 %) C# 5 10 (0.801 %) VB 6 7 (0.560 %) C++ 7 5 (0.400 %) PL/SQL 8 4 (0.320 %) VB.NET 9 3 (0.240 %) COBOL 9 3 (0.240 %) VB6 9 3 (0.240 %) JavaScript 9 3 (0.240 %) JCL 10 1 (0.080 %) PowerHouse 10 1 (0.080 %) XPath 10 1 (0.080 %) DHTML 10 1 (0.080 %) VBA 10 1 (0.080 %) VC++ 10 1 (0.080 %) XQuery	Qualifications 1 299 (23.94 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 158 (12.65 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 82 (6.565 %) PMI Certification 4 81 (6.485 %) PMP 5 38 (3.042 %) Degree 6 37 (2.962 %) ISEB 7 17 (1.361 %) ITIL Certification 8 15 (1.201 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 10 (0.801 %) Microsoft Certification 10 9 (0.721 %) MCSE 10 9 (0.721 %) ISTQB 11 5 (0.400 %) MCSA 12 4 (0.320 %) MCP 13 3 (0.240 %) SAP Certification 13 3 (0.240 %) Cisco Certification 13 3 (0.240 %) CAPM 13 3 (0.240 %) MAPM 14 2 (0.160 %) CNE 14 2 (0.160 %) Novell Certification 15 1 (0.080 %) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 24 (1.922 %) QA 2 19 (1.521 %) Basel II 3 18 (1.441 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 5 (0.400 %) SLA 5 4 (0.320 %) ISO27001 6 3 (0.240 %) BS7799 7 2 (0.160 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 20 (1.601 %) Active Directory 2 3 (0.240 %) Oracle RAC 3 2 (0.160 %) Novell eDirectory 3 2 (0.160 %) Terminal Services 3 2 (0.160 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (0.160 %) Oracle RMAN 4 1 (0.080 %) AquaLogic 4 1 (0.080 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 26 (2.082 %) OpenView 2 10 (0.801 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 6 (0.480 %) CiscoWorks 4 5 (0.400 %) BMC Marimba 5 3 (0.240 %) MOM 6 2 (0.160 %) MIIS 7 1 (0.080 %) HP Data Protector 7 1 (0.080 %) ZENworks	Vendors 1 107 (8.567 %) Microsoft 2 78 (6.245 %) Oracle 3 44 (3.523 %) SAP 4 34 (2.722 %) HP 5 25 (2.002 %) BMC 6 22 (1.761 %) Cisco 7 20 (1.601 %) Siebel 8 19 (1.521 %) Remedy 9 13 (1.041 %) Business Objects 10 9 (0.721 %) PeopleSoft 10 9 (0.721 %) IBM 11 8 (0.641 %) Sage 12 7 (0.560 %) VMware 12 7 (0.560 %) Citrix 13 6 (0.480 %) Sun 13 6 (0.480 %) Cognos 13 6 (0.480 %) Niku 14 4 (0.320 %) Novell 14 4 (0.320 %) Brio 14 4 (0.320 %) Nortel